Devoutly religious people think in their religion.
For more than forty years in my life, I had a religious mind; and my religious mind was just as good as the religious mind of any other religious person.
When I met Jesus Christ, however, I lost my religion; and when I lost my religion and was freed from the shackles of religion, I no longer thought in a religious mind.
Words are powerful; words are strong. And we live by the power of words in our minds. From whence do those words come? And which words do we believe are true?
Words of religion control and dominate the mind of a religious person, for the words of religion in the minds of people can compel them to live in fear---the fear of losing their religion; for if they lose their religion, what will they do? Their trust or faith is in their religion, and without it they can feel hopeless and helpless, mixed with the fear of losing their salvation as well as losing their passage to heaven; and without heaven, all is lost. For everything they have learned about the future, beyond death, is in the words of their religion.
At the same time, people can also accept the idea of Christ---as long as they can keep their religion; but if Christ and religion are mixed in their minds, beginning at the age of toddlers, they do not know the difference: they do not know, nor do they believe, that Christ is separate from religion. To them, Christ and religion are one.
Knowing Christ without religion is difficult for religious Christians to believe. For if they believe they are Christians now, why do they need to accept Christ as their Savior? They believe that their sins have been forgiven by a priest, so what can Christ do that is different from the pardon they have received from their priest? Especially if Christ is already within their religion?
Religious Christians, therefore, believe that other people, who call themselves Christians, need their Christian religion: that it is their religion that has saved them, and Christ is not necessary for salvation.
In summary, this is the evidence that Christianity, as a religion, has tricked people to believe that a Christian religion is the important matter, and that other people, claiming to be born again Christians, are infidels: that born again Christians are trying to persuade religious Christians to surrender their Christian religion.
Satan wants the minds of religious Christians to remain in a state of confusion, and, therefore, to remain faithful to their religion. Shoo born again Christians away, do not talk about Christ with them, and do not go to their churches because they believe that born again Christians are trying to trick them (when they have already been tricked) which is a case of double jeopardy: that they cannot be saved twice since they have been saved by their religion.
The mind of a religious Christian does not contain the knowledge of God, for all the people have is the knowledge of religion.
So then, what kind of mind should a Christian have? By embracing the Word of the Lord, our minds become more like the mind of the Lord.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being made in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every name. (Philippines 2: 5-9)
For more than forty years in my life, I had a religious mind; and my religious mind was just as good as the religious mind of any other religious person.
When I met Jesus Christ, however, I lost my religion; and when I lost my religion and was freed from the shackles of religion, I no longer thought in a religious mind.
Words are powerful; words are strong. And we live by the power of words in our minds. From whence do those words come? And which words do we believe are true?
Words of religion control and dominate the mind of a religious person, for the words of religion in the minds of people can compel them to live in fear---the fear of losing their religion; for if they lose their religion, what will they do? Their trust or faith is in their religion, and without it they can feel hopeless and helpless, mixed with the fear of losing their salvation as well as losing their passage to heaven; and without heaven, all is lost. For everything they have learned about the future, beyond death, is in the words of their religion.
At the same time, people can also accept the idea of Christ---as long as they can keep their religion; but if Christ and religion are mixed in their minds, beginning at the age of toddlers, they do not know the difference: they do not know, nor do they believe, that Christ is separate from religion. To them, Christ and religion are one.
Knowing Christ without religion is difficult for religious Christians to believe. For if they believe they are Christians now, why do they need to accept Christ as their Savior? They believe that their sins have been forgiven by a priest, so what can Christ do that is different from the pardon they have received from their priest? Especially if Christ is already within their religion?
Religious Christians, therefore, believe that other people, who call themselves Christians, need their Christian religion: that it is their religion that has saved them, and Christ is not necessary for salvation.
In summary, this is the evidence that Christianity, as a religion, has tricked people to believe that a Christian religion is the important matter, and that other people, claiming to be born again Christians, are infidels: that born again Christians are trying to persuade religious Christians to surrender their Christian religion.
Satan wants the minds of religious Christians to remain in a state of confusion, and, therefore, to remain faithful to their religion. Shoo born again Christians away, do not talk about Christ with them, and do not go to their churches because they believe that born again Christians are trying to trick them (when they have already been tricked) which is a case of double jeopardy: that they cannot be saved twice since they have been saved by their religion.
The mind of a religious Christian does not contain the knowledge of God, for all the people have is the knowledge of religion.
So then, what kind of mind should a Christian have? By embracing the Word of the Lord, our minds become more like the mind of the Lord.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being made in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every name. (Philippines 2: 5-9)
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